The Future Laboratory

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Loóna’s sleepscapes are phygital wind-downs

Loóna is an app that uses interactive storytelling in the form of sleepscapes to help people wind down and drift off to sleep.

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Culture & Media

Hater daters

Global – The new Hater app is designed to help people meet other people who hate the same stuff.

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Food & Drink

Allen Han: Domestic experts

Teforia’s CEO and co-founder explains how technology is making connoisseurship more accessible.

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Culture & Media

Muslim buzz

Global – Media company BuzzFeed dedicated a day to Muslim content on social media platform Snapchat Discover.

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Technology

On an Even keel

US – Even, a new financial start-up, aims to help freelancers regulate their incomes.Offers interest-free loans to freelancers for £1.92 ($3, €2.75) per weekNow in Beta, with plans to launch publicly in 2016Freelancers make up a third of national workforce in US

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Technology

MakerBot

Will 2014 be the year 3D printing fulfills its promise? The manufacturing process that turns digital models into solid objects has been the subject of boundless speculation, with former Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson claiming that ‘3D-printing will be bigger than the web’.